The Australian-American relationship has been the central issue in Australian foreign policy since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. War in the Asia-Pacific brought Australia into a crucial and ultimately successful military alliance with its powerful Pacific ally, the United States.

The Treaty of Versailles was one of five treaties formulated at the Paris Peace Conference as part of the peace negotiations at the end of the First World War. The Treaty of Versailles related to establishing the conditions of peace with Germany.

The Paris Peace Conference of 1919, held just months after the end of WWI, gathered together the leaders of the world. Their tasks were to redraw the world map and create a peace that would last forever. While it clearly failed in its second task, 90 years on we still live in a world created at that conference. Rear Vision re-examines the Paris Conference and the Treaty of Versailles.

Paris Peace Conference, (1919–20), the meeting that inaugurated the international settlement after World War I.

League of Nations, an organization for international cooperation established at the initiative of the victorious Allied Powers at the end of World War I.

The League of Nations was the forerunner to the present United Nations. This guide from the National Library of Australia provides links for information and documentation relating to the League of Nations.

Statute of Westminster, (1931), statute of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that effected the equality of Britain and the then Newfoundland dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, and Newfoundland.

ANZUS Pact, formally Pacific Security Treaty, security treaty between Australia, New Zealand, and the United States that was signed in San Francisco, Calif., on Sept. 1, 1951, for the purpose of providing mutual aid in the event of aggression and for settling disputes by peaceful means. It came into force in 1952. The three countries’ initials provided the acronyms for the treaty and the organization that grew out of it.

This site includes a copy of the ANZUS treaty which was signed off at San Francisco on 1 September 1951.

The name "United Nations", coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was first used in the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942, during the Second World War, when representatives of 26 nations pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers.

The United Nations (UN) is an association of independent countries that have agreed to work together to prevent and end wars. The UN also attempts to improve social conditions by promoting international cooperation, economic development, public health, environmental conservation, and human rights.

Despite the vast amount of literature concerned with Churchill, relatively little has concentrated upon the nonmilitary aspects of his policy during World War II. In particular, Churchill's views on the League and his role in the formation of a new world organization, have not received the
attention they deserve. To rectify this omission in some small way will be the overall purpose of this essay.